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Description: | Transcription (27pp ts) of a memoir written in 1947 concerning his service in the 2nd Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, 1890 - 1918, describing his training as a bandsman at the Royal Military School of Music (Kneller Hall) and subsequent service with the Battalion in India, with particular reference to the high mortality rate due to disease and the use of native labour in camp, return to home service and then in South Africa during the 1899 - 1902 Anglo-Boer War (Battle of Colenso and relief of Ladysmith), return to civilian life and emigration to Canada in 1912, service in the 9th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles from the outbreak of war in 1914, training in Canada and England and service in France until the end of the war, when he returned to Canada; together with a photograph of McGale taken during the First World War and a copy of `Infantry Bugle Calls' (1900).
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 1998-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McGale, J J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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